June 27, 2020
I spent today cleaning up all the recommendations from the tech advisor inspection. He wanted us to deburr all the empennage skins more thoroughly and re-squeeze every 3/32″ rivet we could reach. It took a while but I finished that work on the rudder, the horizontal stab, and the vertical stab – the elevators had been done previously. We checked almost everything off his “touch up” list with only a rivet here or there that need replacing.
We also got the parts in to remake the aileron pushrod tubes to the correct length. This time around Paul drilled the final eye to eye length in the workbench and cut everything to fit. Turns out the drawing was only off about 5/8″ an inch for how long to cut the tube. After the aileron pushrod tubes were made Paul moved on to the elevator tube, hoping to get everything primed in one go.
One Rod End Bolted To Table 
Aileron Pushrod
After looking for the elevator pushrod parts, it seems that we were shipped a few extra M3614 rod ends instead of the M2616 rod ends called for. We didn’t notice this during the inventory because all of the rod ends came in separate bags so we didn’t directly compare and generally checked quantity assuming that they were all the right sizes. After the fiasco with the aileron tubes, we weren’t willing to cut the elevator tube without having all the parts mounted to the workbench, so that all got put off to the side until I can reorder the correct rod ends from Van’s.
Cheers,
-Kacy
(Total Build Time: 365.3 hrs)